amino was so good… but SO BAD
Amino was such a good yet bad experience… I just had to talk about it lol!
Tell me your experience down below:)
internet friend video: https://youtu.be/D8zob72xkow
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intro 0:00-3:07
sparknote amino 3:08-6:03
therapy time 6:04-14:33
exposing myself 14:34-19:14
overall thoughts 19:15-20:58
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tags: kpop amino internet friends
@Walnarut
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
was anyone else on warriors amino when they were like 9/10 lmaoš never got groomed but GOD was i cringe on there
@azurerynn
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
i've been on amino for almost a decade now (although the last few years i've only really had it to check in with old friends from time to time). it's been getting really bad maintenance wise in the last few years, and a lot of people have moved over to a new app called kyodo. due to most of its members being amino refugees, the age range currently skews older than how amino used to be (lots of people in their 20s, rather than teens), and so far i've found it to be a really lovely community! it feels like how i remember the good parts of amino to be, with less of the drama. it's still very new and a little buggy, and obviously there will always be bad apples, but i recommend it to anyone who misses the good times on amino! it looks practically identical to amino too, so easy to navigate for old amino users
@keslatrios7489
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Hey! Just got into this channel and happened to find this video on Amino. Boy oh boy does this spark memories.
Ok. So I first got into Amino because of Warrior Cats tbh. I spent a little bit of time getting into it, getting to know the features, chatting with people. However, the Amino I joint was what I am pretty sure was the biggest english-speaking Warrior Cats Amino back then. Back in the day I didn't speak English anywhere near the level I'm at now, so I kind of struggled getting into it. I think I was about 11 or 12 back then and god was I a lonely tween. Naturally, I kept coming back to the app, mostly just looking for friends and a sense of community.
At 12 or 13, so when I was barely a teenager and struggling a lot with school to the point where my mom put me into therapy, I then found a german (I am german) Harry Potter Amino (I… had a bad Harry Potter phase unfortunately – and then turned out to be non-binary-). I got a bit into roleplaying, creating OCs and writing some posts and then I was introduced to the second biggest german Harry Potter Community on Amino. That was where the trouble started.
I am not quite sure when I actually properly quit Amino, but I think I was about 15 or 16 at the time, but I still did devote roughly 2 years of my teenage years to that one specific community. Very early I became friends with one of the then-curators there, who introduced me to a bunch of other people. These people became core parts of my friend group on there. Over time, that friend group expanded and expanded and we also had our little private group chat – that happened to be centered around me. I am not even joking when I am saying that the way I treated my friends and that group in general is very much concerning in hindsight. I don't want to use the word cult, because of course it was not that, but it were very strange relationships that I fostered and most definitely rather manipulative – especially considering almost all of us where children.
Aside from that, I eventually became curator and even co-leader eventually – I was even offered to become the main leader of that Amino, which I refused because by then I was already rather sure that I didn't even want to be on Amino anymore in the first place.
As an "authority" on that Amino however, I got in touch with… a lot of people. I will just refer to them by letters, because I am not sure if all of these were using a pseudonym to begin with, but here's a few highlights:
L – one of the first people I met on that Amino, very nice and open in the beginning, one of the then-curators too. They were in their early twenties, hanging out with us mostly 12 – 16 y/o, talking very openly about their absolutely concerning relationship to their >40 y/o fiance at the time, even letting us experience some of their fights either through voice chats or live messages. Generally, they talked a lot about very inappropriate topics and also had a tendency of sending literal furry p*rn into public chats – as a joke (on that note, i consensually sent a VERY CROPPED picture of krogan balls to my friend once IN A PRIVATE CHAT and got a Team Amino Strike-)
T – Goddamn insufferable prick, who would end up grooming and gaslighting my now best friend, got banned from this and other Amino's multiple times, but was such a smooth talker that he kept getting back (my fault once as well. the other two times i was involved, I voted against letting him back, getting overruled once unfortunately)
B – Unfortunately I don't quite remember the whole story there. I didn't have too much to do with him myself, but as far as I know, he was a catfish and a groomer who ended up not only causing quite some damage with some of my friends, but also had a rather public breakdown that had to be contained by our team as to protect other users
O – another insufferable prick, though not anywhere as bad as T. A lot of what had made this guy insufferable I could contribute to age. I had a few fights with him in between, because he thought it would be really funny to interfere with people's RPs when they. didn't want that. Generally pretty obnoxious, but as I said, I would contribute a lot of this to him being a young teen.
There were a whole lot more, but those are my highlights that I can think of of the top of my head. However, I also met a lot of cool people, some of them I have no means of contacting by now sadly. Other people, I am still in contact with. One of them is my best friend in the world, another one does sick cosplays now, another one I just occasionally play games with but she is incredibly funny.
Now to get to the actual point: Amino left me with a whole lot of damage that got worse with every day I spent on that app. I developed an actual addiction (one of my then friends and I made it a challenge who could spend more time online on JUST THAT Amino and we both got to the point of 7000 – 7500 minutes per week for multiple weeks in a row), I was sent to the mental hospital mutiple times, my struggles with school got much worse, to the point where I didn't go at all for literal years. I struggled forming proper connections, on- AND offline and went to a lot of therapy to become better.
I spent about all of my adolescence in therapy, even moving in to a place where I had caregivers around 24/7 for a few years. By now I finally graduated, have started an apprenticeship, moved in with two of my friends in a first own apartment and am genuinely doing so so much better. Amino was an awful experience in very formative years and I am so, so glad that I eventually beat that god damn addiction.
@LocalTradesman225
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I know I'm 2 year's late; but I was young as shit when I joined amino and now I'm a traumatized 20 year old with the equivalent of a specialized therapy license. The amount of people who young me "saved" from dying bruh. It ruined me.
As for roleplay; I fucking loved that shit, it was an escape but in a healthier way once I established my personal boundaries. "I am my own person, you are your own person. I am not the character I play, you are not the character you play." (Genuinely a segment of ALL my "roleplay rules" posts) it just gave me more understanding and now I treat it more like a passion project whenever I indulge in some good old fashioned roleplay. Funnily enough, it wasn't even amino where I discovered the concept of long-form roleplay. It was actually via an email chain I had with a few friends š
@ajotinha1655
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
VERNON FAN based based based
@leatherface2181
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Surprisingly some aminos are still somewhat active, well about as active as an abandoned town can be, donāt get me started on yandere simulator aminos or the fnaf amino
@RoastTurtle22
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I was in the storytelling places of Amino. I loooooved writing lore behind fantasy worlds and still do!….. Unfortunately Amino was the only truly clean setup from the Wikis and blogs and all that. Now it's a glitchy, broken, dead place with a few people clinging to it's life.
@Sparklemuffinpeacockspider
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Eddsworld aminoā¦
@YMCA-c8d
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I had Amino, forgot it for months and when I finally remembered it and decided to check it, IT ADDED ME TO CHILD PORN GROUPS, so I quickly reported the group and deleted the app
@UnCaffeinatedChaos
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Allie i love you but please stop moving your mic around itās driving me crazy with the audio difference every few seconds ššš
Please
Put it down girly please š
@VoidMags
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I was in the Steven universe amino and it was mostly horrendous
@kasythelassy2510
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Amino is so nostalgic as many times as I had conversations I shouldnāt had have as a middle schooler I wish I could go back as well cause man those were the days but it was traumatizing
@MysticSabbath
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I remember being on the SCP amino years ago when I had the app, my online friends and I were 15-16 and we wound up meeting and roleplaying with a 43 year old woman from the UK. To put it lightly, we realized a bit later on that she was trying to groom us with nsfw group rpās so we just blocked and reported her.
@thatunusualkid9489
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I had a guy asking for pictures of my little sister, disgusting pig
@skelaten_b07
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
HOLY I completely forgot this app existed and I should definitely not have been on it at the age of 11 taking to adultsā¦ š¤¦ being added to random discord server and being asked inappropriate questions is not for the weak and DEFINITELY not ok for an eleven year old told to have experienced
@Thegenderbartender
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
It was one of the best and worst apps Iāve been on Iām really lucky that I was never in any bad situation as I just used it to share my cool drawings that no one else actually liked but Iām now realising how lucky I was because I literally never did anything else on amino. I was the person who ghosted group chats tbh I left amino at some point in 2020 and recently re downloaded it to see what itās like now and itās really a ghost town now
@Milo.the.pesident
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I remember being a young child and hearing about amino
At the time I was roleplaying on Qoutev all night and supper into undertale, so I downloaded it a few times but each time I was to āØsocially anxiouāØ and āØinsecure āØ to ever interact with anyone or do anything on it so I always deleted it
11:09 speaking of qoutev,one time, completely random person, messaged me to tell them how help SOMEONE ELSE not kms
terrifying
@cherubs777
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
PKA you will taste the edge of my blade
@cjae4232
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
in 2016, i remember downloading an Amino LGBT+ app. within the first five minutes, someone joined one of the public chats i was checking out, sent a pp pic, typed ādicks out for harambeā and left the chat. i deleted the app immediately after
@purpleoctopus2132
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
šSTOP CAUSE I WAS IN THE WOLFYCHU AMINO AND THERE WAS SO MANY ā¦pedosā¦
@brooklynbingham9102
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I was on amino when I was 13-15 years old i used it for the BTS amino Iāve made so many friends on there at the time but it died around 2018-2019
@Mineru1988
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I use to be on amino but I got banned years ago.
@ollie8555
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I met my current partner on Clique Amino.
I was like 13 when i joined amino in 2017 and it was such a traumatic experience yet so good that i dont remember much from it. There was several groomers, toxicity, bullying and abusive staff. Yet the app was so fucking addiciting that i ended up spending most of my teenage years on there.
I got bullied, groomed, harassed, and people pretended to yeet themselves for attention etc and that was kind of the norm in clique Amino back then.
I never know what to say when people ask me 'how did you meet your partner?' HOLY SHIT its so embarrasing honestly, especially if you have to try an explain Amino to elders.
if ANYONE has any advice pls lmk lmao
@connerbranson2892
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I remember amino good days and the best bad people lol
@localloki392
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I am one of the few who had a good amino experience thanks to me being an asshole as a kid. If your vibes were off or i didn't like where you were taking the rp, blocked. I was also only there for the rps of my fav ships and nothing else. Overall had a good experience and a fun time. I know I'm not the majority there
@ppriya-l6l
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
0:45 arya stark!?!?
@Thats_soDumb
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Itās like discord, but no regulations and a lot of people want to groom you, but you make some cool friends and some homicidal ones soā¦. Thats amino š
@linabhm.20
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
My bullies almost trafficked me to a 25 years old man on amino . My whole chat was men's nudes, and i was just 13
I was groomed by a 20 years old men
The only good thing in amino is that i became a graphic designer
@mathewtodd480
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I stopped using Amino because of the Ads dude, when they got bought it went down so hard
@CarlyMWebster
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
shoutout to the 5SOS amino lmao
@aneta3098
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I was a part of a Dragon Ball RP community on a random website. This was before DBS where characters were only debatably Galaxy level strong at maximum. So yeah, the community could get toxic af ššš
@orangez99
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Fellow small town ohioan
@EuletteAbenir
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I'm currently in a community called Writer's which isāif you guessed itāa community of writers, one of the healthiest communities, I am a curator there and the agent is also a leader in the social science community.
@personamithulu
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I joined Amino after G+ shutdown, and for several years I spent several years. It was chill and I even joined groups that I was really into. Overall outside of a moment of minor frustration, where I vented mildy for loosing an entire post I wrote after getting jumped scared by my mom. And some clingy person who thought I was depressed for some reason. I had a pretty good time where I had no drama. And then the porn bots came. Sweet mother of Jesus Christ the porn bots. They were so bad and they just kept coming. At that point I literally just had enough and just deleted the app.
@thimbles501
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
It always starts on the kpop group and then turns into the krps.. š This video made me realize how traumatizing amino really was. Like most of this stuff happened to me and I was like dropping my jaw when the memories would come back as you kept talking. And honestly, I remember when having like 8 hours a day on a specific community was like a bragging right, like girl do your homework.. Also, the role play phase was so real, and it got so messy. Sometimes I go back and check on it every once in awhile and Iām so glad the community is dying down because realistically itās so unhealthy.
@Jemma_Yt
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
oh trust me i had people asking me on amino if i wanted a a sugar mummy/daddy and people fake threats witch all i blocked and reported and don't ask me about the live feature update gross man grown adults streaming inapropiate content on there
@kafkaqt
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I forgot the app amino I stop using it since 2023 I'm still traumatized about thr app since I was only 18 and this boy he forced me to take off my clothes he called me and texted me on IG I'm glad I stop using thr app amino now it has adds its really annoying now š
@monarch1410
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
yeah, this shi was ass
@PatiencePreservationProgress
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Oh boy, there was this person and ill name them bc im pretty sure this isnt their actual name but this person Named Ophy or orphy was just, the biggest like pick me ever, there wasnt a moment i interacted with this person where we didnt have beef, (this was all in the biggest MHA community) and it was like, so funny cause being a dumb teenager i would talk about crazy things so we would literally have like an attention seek off and there was a memorable moment where there was this guy who Orphy called him Kai and i remember i did called him kai and then orphy just started absolutely losing it. As bad as it was it was absolutely hilarious
@TheBuggyBxy
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
i still use amino in the big 2025 lol
@DudeBro54
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I had an amino account when I was 11-13, I actually made a few friends on a public group chat and was invited into a private group chat with them and I have very fond memories of it. All of these friends were adults and yes they knew I was 12 when I started talking to them, Iām very lucky to have had a good experience with them, they used to remind me of those fun aunts and uncles who you have a lot of fun with and they sometimes give you advice. They may not remember me but I remember them fondly.
Edit: yeah so updateā¦ I downloaded Amino again because I remembered how pleasant my experience was, and Immediately got added into a N4zi group chat called āR4pe of 87 womenā. I looked through out of curiosity and it was just them sending memes about how much they love hitler. Itās weird, out of all the places to spread n4zi propaganda they chose amino?
@enbycreature42
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I used amino once (1) when I was a teenager (cuz BTS), and the very first person I talked to was a girl who started to flirt with me in DMs. I got scared, and deleted the app immediately.
@Nepepepereta_XD
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
god i remember amino… i remember being in a gacha life community and a polandball community. Specifically, in the gacha life community, there was like a rule where you needed to show your layers when posting edits/art(i think it was to prove you didnt atole it). so yeah, amino was an experience
@cupcakebatterwithsprinkles
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I was the comedic wizard that ghosted if i didn't vibe. š
@JordanKibbe
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I woukd report harassment on tgere tgen tgey be like im a modarator and whatwvee messaged ke they made uo bs messaged me told me i was wrong when i just calked tgem oyt on tge g word bs them being tge goomers tgey got pissed at me for posting aboit anime in anime communities or on there in general they would like ban or get read of my post and tgere post were safe for work ya that app is 100% for woke shilos/racist sexist groomers the app was a outlet for groomers and woke cowards like safe place for them instead of inasent kids/people sorry for any bad spelling lol
@ngtskynebula
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
I got into Amino for a few months in 2018 cause I was trying to find fans of a somewhat old, and then dead, online game… I didn't stick to it cause the app was so unstable for me it pissed me off š„“
I found Amino had too many options and little coherence, as an app. Plus, the chat was SHIT cause it always crashed. Back then ppl rec'ed it a lot, I'm surprised ā but not too much ā it was such a tragic experience for so many ppl š«Ø
@MarvelBinaryGoth
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Animo didnāt help they ban me insteadā¦
@MarvelBinaryGoth
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 am
Animo traumatised meā¦I had someone send me horror pics like game RDR zombie and told me threats like km this be you
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